'Painting Table' author brings art, book to Asheville

SC author who uses painting as a tool for healing comes to Asheville Friday evening

5:22 PM,
Jan. 9, 2014

Roger Hutchison

Written by

Joanne O?Sullivan
| Citizen-Times correspondent

Something happened the first time Roger Hutchison dropped his paintbrushes and dipped his hands directly into paint. Letting go of the tools of a painter allowed him to access so much more, the artist and author says, including a sense of healing - and later, a sense of kinship.

Hutchison will share what he learned and how he uses painting as a tool for community building at 7 p.m. Friday at Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe downtown, where he'll read from his new book, "The Painting Table."

Painting has always been a hobby and not a profession for Hutchison, a Warren Wilson graduate who's now the canon ...